How Much of Rick Perry's Secret Energy Plan Will Be Revealed Today? - Conor Friedersdorf

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/how-much-of-rick-perrys-secret-energy-plan-will-be-revealed-today/246531/

The United States imports roughly ten million barrels of crude oil per day. Over the next three days, Perry has promised to explain how, if elected, he would quickly 1) put 1.2 million Americans to work; 2) achieve energy independence! A policy proposal that accomplished all that would be quite a trick. But we're in for something even more amazing. Unlike other politicians, who just don't get it, Perry isn't going to focus on the policy we should implement, he's just going to get Americans working again -- the energy independence he's going to achieve, in the course of putting millions to work, won't require an act of Congress, just a president who wants it badly enough.